Brooklyn Ballet reflects on the first year in Downtown Brooklyn!
Moving into our new home in The Schermerhorn, a green, mixed-use space, has allowed us to expand training and performance opportunities for our School, Conservatory, Company and collaborating guest artists. Our beautiful street-level studio holds our myriad community dance classes, and the new performance space in the building provides space for professional concerts and showcases.

Photo: Julienne Schaer

We're raising the Barre in Brooklyn! So far:

• Marty Markowitz cut the ribbon on our new home at The Schermerhorn in Downtown Brooklyn, where we have a column-free dance studio, administrative space and access to a black box theater.
• Brooklyn Ballet School inaugurated a full schedule of classes, offering conservatory ballet training and repertory for pre-professional students, as well as modern, jazz, popping and more, for children and adults at all levels.
• Brooklyn Ballet Company unveiled Downtown Brooklyn’s newly constructed multi-purpose performance venue with a series of mixed repertory concerts in May 2010. The program, First Look: Brooklyn Ballet & Friends included original work by Artistic Director Lynn Parkerson as well as performances by special guest artists.
• Brooklyn Ballet begins hosting its first annual Summer Intensives. School Director Patty Foster offers Pre-Conservatory Workshops for kids ages 3 to 7 in June and August, and the Ballet hosts an International Summer Intensive in July.
• Elevate, the Ballet’s public education program, continues to introduce more than 1,000 children to ballet every year. This year, we offered more than 150 Brooklyn Ballet School scholarships to talented students from Elevate.
• In our first year in Downtown Brooklyn, more than 30 talented children received conservatory ballet training with full or partial scholarship support.

Brooklyn Ballet has been delighting audiences across Brooklyn and internationally since its programs began in 2003. We continue to engage in artistic exploration and community outreach. We are proud to take part in this momentous expansion of the Arts in Brooklyn, and we look forward to continuing to connect with the borough through education, performance and more.

“It makes me feel like I can do anything when I’m up there.” – John Michael, student of Brooklyn Ballet School

“The thing I really love about dancing with Brooklyn Ballet is that it’s really calming—it calms me down when I get angry.” – Brianna, student of Brooklyn Ballet School

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